A nursing remedy
I HAVE followed two seemingly separate issues with interest: the debate on the merits of nurse education's wholesale arrival into higher education establishments (THES, February 14) and the teaching...
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Don's diary
Tuesday. The week, like the semester, is dominated by Shakespeare. I begin teaching a module called "The Shakespeare Phenomenon" which considers the place of Shakespeare in late 20th century culture...
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Union recruiters for social partnership
On the face of it, universities and unions have little in common. Trade unions are essentially defensive organisations protecting their members' jobs and pay, a bit like an insurance company for the...
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US right rues civic apathy
What chutzpah! After two decades in ascendancy, conservatives have put the question "Is American democracy dying?" at the top of their political agenda. However exasperating it is, Americans...
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Scratch 'measles approach'
GRADUATE jobs may be a thing of the past because of the huge expansion of higher education and multi-skilling requirements of industry, according to a senior industry training manager. "We still...
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Gillian Shephard speaks at the Further Education Development Agency conference
Education secretary Gillian Shephard also spoke at the conference, and outlined five challenges for further education in the future. It must: manage growth within available funding by increasing...
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'Boom town logic' blights masters
standards in taught masters courses may be suffering because of the boom in demand. Peter Knight, senior lecturer in the educational research department at Lancaster University, says more research is...
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Kenya calls in Scotland Yard
Students and lecturers at the University of Nairobi have called on the British government to bring in Scotland Yard detectives to investigate the death of a student leader which has sparked off...
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Labour proposes tests for lecturers
A Labour government would require further education lecturers to get teaching qualifications within a specified period after entering the profession, said Bryan Davies, Labour's spokesman on higher...
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Woolly logic
ARE the arguments for the cloning of animals as woolly as the first product of this technique (THES, February 28)? To what problems is cloning the solution? Will it improve the stock of animals for...
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Eagleton reinvented
IN HIS eagerness to agree with Terry Eagleton's moralising strictures against postmodernism's supposedly arbitrary relativism, Peter Aspden (THES, February 28) did not mention that Eagleton himself...
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Black mark
IT WAS great to see a black person on The THES front page (February 28). Not so great to see a black person appear in the form of a cartoon figure bearing a remarkable resemblance to Robertson Jam's...
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Future of pay deals
THE DEBATE in your letters column about the policies of academic trade unions vis-a-vis pay review bodies fails to address the different circumstances of staff in the pre and post-1992 sectors....
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Epitaph for a rabbi
I am astonished that The THES permitted Geoffrey Alderman, in his personal campaign to discredit the office of chief rabbinate and to malign Reform Judaism, the use of its columns to abuse his...
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Unfounded fear of exile
JANE McAdoo's assumption that initial teacher training will be exiled from the academic world has no foundation and shows little understanding of the Teacher Training Agency's work (THES, February 28...